Technology
Is Steve Ballmer Crazy?
By Ferreum Corporation
Jun 28, 2006 - 7:21:00 PM

There's been a question going around for a while asking whether or not Steve Ballmer, the current CEO of Microsoft, is crazy? Well, is he?

Who knows? But the evidence has been mounting over time that if he's not crazy, he may have a sugar problem.

According to CNET, back in September, 2005, Mr. Ballmer threatened to kill both Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, and the Google company itself.

Two for the price of one? Hum. . .

"I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google." Apparently, the reference to a "killing" having been done before was the dispute, some would say theft, that Microsoft perpetrated against Sun Microsystems.

And he did this while throwing chairs and cursing because a senior engineer had told him that he was leaving the company to go over to Google. The engineer made the claims in open court.

Steve Ballmer says the account is exagerrated. Well, we don't know if it is exaggerated, but you can see an actual recorded event that took place in 2001, long before the Google incident. The claims made about his jubilant tirade during this conference were at first thought to have been exaggerated.

Click on the image to view Steve Ballmer jump up and down, at one point injuring his ankle. But like a good little trooper, he continues to bound about the stage asking for his audience to show him adulation. . . and judge for yourself whether or not Steve Ballmer is indeed crazy.